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Strike against SOPA
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Loading ...Just like many other website’s Narnio will go black on the 18th to protest against SOPA. For those that don’t now about it SOPA is Amerika’s way to oppress the free Internet as well as completely legal websites. Here are some of the reasons why SOPA sucks:
- SOPA Gives the Power to Censor the Internet to the Entertainment Industry
- SOPA Curbs Internet Freedom And Online Freedom of Speech
- SOPA Kills Jobs, Thwarts Entrepreneurial Growth
- SOPA Doesn’t Curb Piracy, It Merely Makes Pirated Content Less Accessible
- SOPA Is A Threat To Open Source Too
A lot of big Internet sites are opposing SOPA, including:
- Bungie
- Wikipedia
- Mozilla Foundation
- Tucows
- NVIDIA
Below is a quote from the SOPA Strike.
On January 18th, 2012 the internet is going on strike to stop the web censorship bills in Congress! Now is our moment— we need you to do everything you can, whether you have a website or not.
New MP3 players with huge storage capacity
I never thought I would see the day that I could buy a MP3 player with more storage available then 16GB. But what they are offering at the MyCom at the moment is unbelievable. The claim to have MP3 players with 8192 GB of storage. Where can I sign up for one of those????
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Cold visitors on LinkedIn
I just happened to look over my LinkedIn visitor stats today and noticed something very, very strange. I had a visit from the most unlikely of places. One of the coldest places, being the North Pole.
I guess someone at the LinkedIn offices was having a wonderfull day off and generating some nice stats 
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The hunt for a tablet
A couple of months ago I decided it was time to finally take the plunge and purchase a tablet, but which one. There are so many to choose from. My wishes where simple, it had to have a decent battery live and affordable.
Decent battery live and build quality means most of the 300$ and less models are out of the question. These type of tablets are nice if you don’t expect to get many features, longevity or power out of the tablet. So for me those type of tablets where just not good enough.
On the other end of the scale you have tablets like the iPad and Motorola Xoom, both are decent and have plenty of features. But both cost an arm and a leg and I can’t justify the price for the amount of features they have.
This left the mid-range devices, like the Asus Transformer and the Acer Iconia A500 series. Both of these are good tablets, and both cost roughly the same. So it would have to come down to features and what I wanted to do. The hardware of both devices is almost identical. Both are running on the following:
- Android based tablet
- nVidia Tegra 2 CPU/GPU
- 32 and 64 GB models
- Bluetooth / Wifi B,G,N
- 3G option (the Iconia A501)
The only thing that separates them feature wise is that the Transformer has a far superior display with its IPS technology. So far for the specs, since both of them are almost identical I had to give both a try in the store. I was unpleasantly surprised that my favorite, the Transformer, didn’t feel all that sturdy. In fact it felt as if the device was rushed out of the factory. The case can be pushed and flexes way to much. It makes me worry its gonna get seriously damaged if I carry it in a bag.
So the Iconia A500 became the tablet of choice and now that I’ve had it for a couple of months I feel that I can write a decent review on this device. Below is a small overview of tablet and who they would serve best.
Please note that the feature difference between the mid-range and the hight end is minimal, especially for the Android tablets. You will mostly be paying extra for the brand name and the designer looks. If you have any devices you would like to see added to the list leave a comment and I’ll update the post.
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Update 2 nov 2011: Fixed some broken links in the article
Searching in TFS history, made easy by Microsoft
One of the greatest things about version control systems is the ability to keep track of changes. Or is it? Well Microsoft certainly has a unique look on this. Team Foundation Server (TFS), also known as the Team Failure Server, has a very unique way of keeping track of changes.
To be honest the tracking of changes works fine, for the most part. But what happens when you made a change sometime in the past, you know roughly what you did but not which files were affected or which branch was used. Yes I sometimes don’t know what version (branch) of the software a fix was made in. In any normal version control system you would open up the history log and start searching for a comment you entered. That would result in some result popping up, and with any luck the change-set you were looking for.
Alas Microsoft in all its wisdom decided that searching is overrated and not needed for a version control system. After all you can read through the entire history log to find the change-set can’t you. Ah you can’t, silly you!
Here is a quick work around for this ‘missing’ feature:
- Open up the History view on the ROOT of the TFS server
- Scroll all the way down, in most systems that will be just a few thousand change-sets
- Select all and copy
- Open Excel and paste
Voila now you can search. At least Excel offers a way to search your Team Foundation Server history.
